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Issue: Super-Mystery Comics #4

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Publication Date: November 1940

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Issues: #4 of 48 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: Ace

Indicia Publisher: Periodical House Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/18/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Robert Turner (uncredited)

Notes: Robert Turner claims to have edited this issue and to have written the majority of the stories.
No editor credited; previous indexer thought A. A. Wynn edited this issue.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey [as H. L.] (signed)

Inker(s): Harry Lucey [as H. L.] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Magno

Character(s): Magno; Davey Landis; Capt. Gallant (inset); Black Spider (inset)

First Line: As Davey strained against the idol's death clutch, Magno smashed the mad killers

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Pages: 1

Lastest Weapons of Science in the Battle Against Crime

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Subject Matter

Genres: crime, non-fiction

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Pages: 1

Notes: On inside front cover.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey

Inker(s): Harry Lucey

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Magno the Magnetic Man

Character(s): Magno; Davey [Davey Landis](Magno's aide, introduction, origin, appears in all stories hereafter); Carole Landis (Davey's sister, introduction)

First Line: I wish you hadn't tagged along, Davey.

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Pages: 13

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ed Smalle

Inker(s): Ed Smalle

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Sky Smith

First Line: Sky Smith, flying adventurer, has been called to the wilds of Alaska...

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Pages: 10

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Appel?

Inker(s): George Appel?

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Vulcan

Character(s): Vulcan

First Line: This forest fire is spreading.

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Pages: 12

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Will Rowland

Inker(s): Will Rowland

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Black Spider

First Line: Lawyer John Garrick, friend of D. A. Ralph Nelson...

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Pages: 10

The Mustang Men

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Cliff Howe

Penciller(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Q-13

First Line: Matching wits with spies, anarchists, and killers...

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Pages: 10

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Captain Gallant

Character(s): Captain Gallant (not a super-hero; Intro)

First Line: Captain Gallant, in special diving equipment...

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Pages: 7

The Claw Returns!

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Cole

Inker(s): Jack Cole

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Claw

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for Silver Streak Comics (Lev Gleason, 1939) #6 (September 1940). The artwork is from the cover of that issue.

The Worm Turns

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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Subject Matter

Character(s): "Softy" Jones; "Bull" Dugan (villain)

Synopsis: Softy Jones won't let bullies steal his copy of Sure-Fire Comics.

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Pages: 1

Notes: From scanned copy.